We said we'd be thinking up new ways for you to win beta keys with the contest being broken thanks to Blizzard's Armory issues, and this is one of them! What you'll need to do is head over to our Wowhead YouTube Channel, subscribe to our channel, then leave a comment on the Talador video above and sign it off with your Wowhead username! We need your Wowhead username in there so that we can email you your key, so don't forget it. This contest is to win one of five Warlords of Draenor Beta Keys, and we will draw it on Friday.!

Wowhead Beta Key Giveaway

If you watched Episode 3 of Wowhead Weekly, you'll already be aware of the problems we're having with our current giveaway. Thanks to a Blizzard issue, as confirmed by Zarhym, users from certain servers can't verify their characters to enter our contests. Of course, we are really working hard with Blizzard to try to get this resolved, but we didn't want to put out a new contest, knowing that the issue wasn't fixed.

Winners from the giveaway that ended today will be emailed tonight.

So instead, we're going to give away keys this week through various different means. Perculia and Olivia have a Twitter giveaway going on right now, which they will draw on Thursday, and we're going to devise several other smaller Beta Key contests to get keys out to you until Blizzard repairs the issue affecting the main giveaway. Watch this space!

Black Market Auction House Updates

On Sunday, the Swift Razzashi Raptor was seen, which implies the Swift Zulian Tiger may also be for sale. These mounts are currently unobtainable and dropped from the pre-Cataclysm version of Zul'Gurub.

And finally to recap, early Saturday morning, we found Grimoire of the Four Winds and Tabard of the Arcane. The UDE tabards have been progressively getting more expensive as the UDE point program has closed and no more tabard codes are being generated.

Garrison Videos

We reported over the weekend on the updates to the Garrison system on Beta, the Level 100 PvE server is up on the beta and players can quickly make Level 3 Garrison plots and learn all Level 1 and 2 blueprints from Garrison Ford. As we had infinite Garrison resources, we kept revising our plots to grab all of the possible buildings. We've got video of the Horde and Alliance Level 3 Garrisons for you to enjoy!

Over the weekend, we compiled a bunch of important tweets from Blizzard on transmog, new weekly story quests, garrisons, and tameable clefthooves. We also found some interesting transmog sets and lore developments on the beta.

New Transmog: Guard Armor and Orc Clans

Players who build the Rank 2 Dwarven Bunker / War Mill Level 2 have access to a special Armory perk: Allows the collection of armor scraps from the Orc clans of Draenor for armor transmogrification use. With easy shortcuts to help players level Garrisons on the beta, we can now preview this first-hand.

Wowhead Weekly Episode 3

This week site manager Perculia and Olivia are discussing all the info from the latest build, as well as giving away five beta keys each via Twitter! You'll have to follow them on @perculia and @oliviadgrace, so they can DM you the code if you win, and tweet them their favorite 5-man instance with the hashtag #percbetagiveaway for Perculia and #oliviabetagiveaway for Olivia. If you're wondering what their favorite 5-mans are, check the show at around 20 minutes in!

Brawler's Guild Blog

Blizzard has published a reminder blog, detailing the ins and outs of Brawler's Guild. If you're at a loss for what to do in game right now, Brawler's Guild might be just the challenge to entertain you! And we've updated our Brawler's Guild Guide with boss strats, loot, other rewards and more!

3D Models

We datamined yesterday, which is a new level 100 Feral Druid talent with an alternate Cat Form model for each race. Click on the images below to view them in our 3D Modelviewer and try out MountSelfRun from the modelviewer's dropdown menu to see them run on all fours!

Tauren/Lion

Troll/Tiger

Night Elf/Panther

Worgen/Snow Leopard

We've also made a video of the model's two idle animations and the run!

Azeroth Choppers

Blizzard has revealed all the details of how to get your hands on the prize from Azeroth Choppers: the free Horde chopper! It's pretty straightforward - anyone who logs into the game between now and September 30th will automatically have their account flagged to receive the Horde chopper upon the release of the upcoming Warlords of Draenor expansion. You can check out the full Blizzard post below:

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The Horde chopper is on its way, and you need to log in now to claim it!

Your votes for Azeroth Choppers were counted, and one faction’s war cry roared loudest: the Horde bike will now be turned into a mount in World of Warcraft! Anyone who logs in to the game between now and September 30, 2014 will automatically have their account flagged to receive the Horde chopper upon the release of the upcoming Warlords of Draenor expansion. Everyone can (and should!) claim their chopper by logging in now, but as a reminder, only your Horde characters will be able to mount up and take it for a ride.

Next Beta Build Will Wipe Characters

Blizzard has confirmed that the next Beta build will wipe all characters. So every character on the Beta will be gone, and you'll need to start again from scratch.

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In preparation for the next beta build that is planned to go live July 25, we will be doing a character wipe on the beta realms. Once the new build is live, you will also notice that the realms have been renamed, and that you will be able to create level 100 PvP and PvE characters. For more information about the new realm names, check out the thread Lore recently posted here.

EDIT: Apologies for any confusion; characters are being wiped from the beta realms today.

The Toy Box is one of the big features coming in Warlords of Draenor--you can store all of your vanity items, free up bag space, and use them on any of your characters!

With this guide, you can learn about the following:

How the Toy Box works on beta

What items are currently included in the Toybox

How to obtain all the items

What all the items look like

How you can track your Toy Box completion on Wowhead

Wowhead users love vanity items, and you can browse tons of helpful comments and creative screenshots in the database! We also have several Toy Box Guides made by users: DarkElfIT's Toy Box Guide provides additional information on the vanity items and tips on getting started in MoP, and Celellach's Toy Box Guide lists all the vanity items that have the potential to be added with screenshots.

Patch 5.4.8 Hotfixes for July 22

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July 22

Creatures

Kurtok the Slayer's health has been reduced to be slightly less menacing to the denizens of Northshire.

As ever, here's our summary of the changes broken down class by class. Many classes have no specified changes in these notes, remember these do not necessarily tie in with the current build and datamining thereof.

Thick Hide has been removed and its effects have been incorporated into Bear Form for Guardian Druids

Bear Form now increases armor by 600% 330% for all Druid specializations, and no longer increases Haste and Critical Strike from items by 50%, but instead causes Haste to reduce the global cooldown

For Guardian Druids, Bear Form now also reduces magical damage taken by 25%, reduces physical damage taken by 12%, reduces chance to be critically hit by 6%, and reduces chance for attacks to be parried by 3%.

Tiger’s Fury is now usable during Berserk.

The damage of damage-over-time effects changes dynamically as Eclipse changes.

Moonfire now has a base duration of 20 seconds (up from 14 seconds), but is no longer extended by Starfire and Starsurge critical strikes. Upon reaching 100 Lunar Energy, the next Moonfire deals 100% additional initial damage.

Sunfire now has a base duration of 24 20 seconds (up from 14 seconds), but is no longer extended by Wrath and Starsurge critical strikes.

Omen of Clarity (Restoration) can now only be triggered by the most recently applied Lifebloom, and now causes the next Regrowth to be free.

Conversion no longer has an initial tick, and now costs 15 Runic Power/second for Blood, 10 20 Runic Power/second for Frost, and 20 10 Runic Power/second for Unholy.

Aspect of the Fox is a new ability for all Hunters.Aspect of the Fox: Party and raid members within 40 yards take on the aspects of a fox, allowing them to move while casting all spells for 6 seconds. Only one Aspect can be active at a time. 3 minute cooldown.

Ice Ward was changed to make it more competitive with the rest of its talent row.Ice Ward now causes the next 3 attackers (up from 1) to trigger a Frost Nova.

Mirror Image is now a level-90 Talent, replacing Invocation. Mirror Images now inherit 100% 50% of the Mage’s Spell Power (up from 5%), last 40 seconds (up from 30 seconds), and have a 2 minutes cooldown (down from 3 minutes).

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Selfless Healer no longer causes Bastion of Glory to apply to Flash Heal.

Holy Wrath’s damage and cooldown were increased, and Sanctified Wrath changed to buff it further, in order to give Protection Paladins more burst threat and damage, while retaining its core damage-splitting identity.

Holy Wrath’s damage has been increased by 100%, and its cooldown increased to 15 seconds (up from 9 seconds).

Sanctified Wrath for Protection Paladins has been redesigned.Sanctified Wrath (Protection) now increases the damage of Holy Wrath by 100% and causes it to generate 1 Holy Power.

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We were unsatisfied with Grimoire of Sacrifice for Demonology. Fundamentally, it did not fit Demonology’s theme to sacrifice their pet, full time. We had toyed with ideas where it acted as a temporary cooldown for Demonology, but have decided to replace it with a new talent, which is more theme-appropriate, and fits well against the competition in that talent row.

Grimoire of Sacrifice is no longer available to Demonology Warlocks and has a new talent, Grimoire of Synergy in its place.

Grimoire of Synergy: When the Warlock or their demon deals damage, there is a chance to trigger Demonic Synergy, granting the other one 15% increased damage for 15 seconds.

Thunder Clap now costs 15 30 Rage, and also reduces the movement speed of nearby enemies by 50% for 6 sec.

In order to make sure that you’re able to spend all of your resources within each Colossus Smash window, we added an extension to it onto Raging Blow.

Raging Blow now extends the duration of Colossus Smash by 2 seconds, and has a spell alert on the left and right slots.

Updated character models are a much-anticipated feature in Warlords of Draenor. Our Warlords of Draenor Modelviewer now shows new Draenei and Undead female, so we put together some previews! We've got videos of the new character model emotes as well as screenshots of the updated facial features on the Beta.

Do note that these models are not final or completed - they are in-progress versions which will be subject to further iteration.

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Summer is looking more savage by the second with the launch of the Warlords of Draenor beta--but don't take our word for it, experience it first-hand with our beta key giveaway!

The fine folks at Blizzard Entertainment have graciously given us tons of Warlords of Draenor beta keys to give away and we want you to join in on the fun.

We have 2000 Warlords of Draenor beta keys to give away, spread out over 6 weeks! We'll be picking winners for this current wave of invites on July 28st.

We're trying out a new type of giveaway as well! Each week, enter to win a Warlords of Draenor beta key by completing in-game achievements, which we'll track here on Wowhead. We'll keep things interesting by picking new achievements each week.